SPLICE HOUSE
Architecture Residential Wollstonecraft Nsw, Australia
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1. Living Room This large volume with high level glazing has been designed as a pavilion to the rear of the house, connected to the deck off the Main Bedroom. 5534 px 3670 px 9 MB A3 print |
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2. Living Room View to the rear yard. 5540 px 3655 px 8 MB A3 print |
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3. Living Room The Living Room features custom joinery, light and air from three facades, 5498 px 5748 px 11 MB A3 print |
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4. Stair Case The stair case is open and draws light and air into the Dining Room. 5499 px 3610 px 7 MB A3 print |
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5. The Splice The resolution of the Pavilion and Stair void was celebrated with what seems like an impossible junction. 3695 px 5539 px 7 MB A3 print |
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6. Kitchen This custom design joinery and surfaces provide a functional and compact Kitchen. 5521 px 3697 px 8 MB A3 print |
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7. Retaining the Existing The rear addition has been integrated into the existing building extending into the rear landscaping. 3717 px 5570 px 10 MB A3 print |
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8. Entry Hall The full height to the underside of the existing roof was exposed in the entry to the home. 3630 px 5486 px 8 MB A3 print |
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9. Curved Ceiling The raking underside of the existing roof meets the wall seamlessly with a curved cornice. 3343 px 4813 px 5 MB A4 print |
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10. Concealed Bathroom The shared bathroom on the first floor is concealed behind a door clad in the timber wall lining. 5564 px 3696 px 8 MB A3 print |
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11. Shared Bathroom The large window frames a view over the nieghbouring terracotta roof tiles. 5555 px 3695 px 8 MB A3 print |
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12. Bathroom The Bathroom was designed around the existing window. 5551 px 3671 px 7 MB A3 print |
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13. Main Bedroom The first floor balcony provides semi-private outdoor space and a buffer zone from the the Living space below. 5566 px 3690 px 11 MB A3 print |
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14. Balcony The privacy screen was a custom designed laser cut aluminium panel. 5552 px 3680 px 11 MB A3 print |
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15. Context 3683 px 5556 px 10 MB A3 print |
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16. Rear View The contemporary addition to the rear reveals the changes in attitudes towards domestic spaces in Australia. 5536 px 3671 px 9 MB A3 print |
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17. Context 5469 px 3680 px 11 MB A3 print |
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18. Floor Plans 9922 px 7016 px 2 MB A3 print |
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19. Sections 9922 px 7016 px 1 MB A3 print |
Description
The genesis of this project was a Dutch couple falling in love with Australia and wanting to make a home in the Sydney suburb of Wollstonecraft.
All project credits available here: https://www.stukel.com.au/splicehouse/
Questions and Answers
What was the brief?
The brief was distilled to the desire for spaces that were at once both tropical and austere, a wonderful contradiction which lead to a unique renovation of a typical semi-detached Federation dwelling.
What were the key challenges?
The project was in a street with houses featuring heritage character and the local council was not supportive of contemporary additions.
What were the solutions?
The break-through was in determining that the building works could circumvent the Local Council Development Application procedure byway of the ‘State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008’. The design required careful calibration of side setbacks, floor areas, roof heights along with thorough site analysis; with a dash of good luck (front boundary width was compliant within 15mm). This ultimately allowed for a much stronger contemporary design response within a normally historically prioritised planning area. The existing fabric of the semi-detached dwelling was interrogated for all redundant partitions and structure which were unceremoniously removed. The opportunities of the project were revealed as the resultant internal volumes were amalgamated then re-apportioned within the existing building envelope.
The realised architecture offers delightful surprises. The ceiling to the original entry corridor sweeps in a curve to a soaring 6.5m with high level clerestory glazing, setting the tone of the light-filled renovated works to the rear of the house. In playful contrast the upstairs shared bathroom is secreted behind a camouflaged timber board wall lining.
The new volumes are strategically set within the existing form of the building, linked by a first floor balcony with planting. The living space is a double height Pavilion with clerestory glazing to three sides, with generous awnings to protect openings and provide light shelves which illuminate the ceiling.
Key products used:
Zinc standing seam to the edge of the flat roofs.
How is the project unique?
The design was devised in primarily two architectural sections. The first a more ‘public’ circulation link between the front, rear and upper levels of the house, and the second a series of interconnected terraced planes and roofs from the main bedroom to the back wall of the garden offering visual, aural and spatial continuity. These two conceptual sections reconcile at an improbably sharp ceiling junction formed by structural trickery, the Splice.
Details
| Project size | 112 m2 |
| Site size | 270 m2 |
| Project Budget | USD 320,000 |
| Completion date | 2014 |
| Building levels | 2 |
Project team
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Stukel Architecture | Architect |